Climate Changed
Trump Told Iowa He'd Save Ethanol. His EPA Chief Has Other Ideas
- Farm-state senator decries administration ‘bait and switch’
- Politics of ethanol mandate divides oil industry, corn farmers
As he sought votes during last year’s Iowa caucuses, candidate Donald Trump courted farmers with praise for ethanol and promises that he would boost the home-grown fuel.
Now those farmers and other biofuel supporters say the people President Trump has put in charge of the issue in Washington are instead boosting their fossil-fuel rivals.